Brooklyn College of Pharmacy - Pharmakon Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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4 1 I '-ICQ? cf-Lfif Pr-mliuvnfxwow QQ-3 7 C1 . m 523 , I I F BVQ X 1, Q the parlor of this apartment being used as I..- I the Lecture Hall and the kitchen as the Laboratory. L The original Faculty was composed of: R. G. Eccles, IVLD., William P. DeForest, Ph.G., Luther F. Stevens, Ph.G., and F. J. I Wulling. Instructors: William C. Anderson, Charles F. Keale, Albert H. Brundage, lVI.D. and H., T. Haessig, NLD., Ph.G. ' The course covered twenty-three weeks of five hours a day and three days in each week for each class, Junior and Seniors. All who had completed at least two years of the pre- liminary work given by the Society, and had I passed satisfactory examinations, were ad- mitted as the first class of Senior students. P ' I Included in the twelve men who comprised SECOND COLLEGE BELLELEE the first graduating class of the Brooklyn . A College of Pharmacy was William C. Anderson, who, while pursuing the Senior course as a student, acted as Instructor in General Phar- macy to the Junior class. After much controversy as to who should receive the first diploma and in consequence become the first graduate of the College, it was decided to present these in alphabetical order and the coveted honor fell to William C. Anderson, who with Louis Berger, Albert H. Brun- dage, John F. Crawford,'Robert Kerntopf,-Francis F. Lange, Frank Perlstein, Samuel Rosenthal, J. Francis Smith, Harry Vaughan, Joseph A. Humpp and B. Newton were graduated with the degree of Ph.G., in- May of .1892 The exercises were held in the Young lgZIen's Christian Association -Building on Bond Street near Fulton treet. In 1892, William' C. Anderson was advanced from Instructor in General Pharmacy to Professor of Pharmaceutics and in 1902 be- came the Dean of the Faculty. Professor Anderson's service to the College has continued through its thirty-six years of existence and today he is the only living member of the original Faculty connected with the College. , The second year sh-owed some important changes in and additions to the Faculty, it being constitute-d as follows: I R. G. Eccles, Ph.G., lVI.D., Dean, Professor of Organic Chemistry, etc. W. P. DeForest, Ph.G., Professor of General Pharmacy. H. W. Schimpf, Ph.F., Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. W. C. Anderson, Ph.G., Professor of Pharmaceutics. I H. T. Haessig, Ph.G., lVI.D., Instructor of Organic Chemistry, etc. J. B. Newton, Ph.G., Instructor-of General Pharmacy. A D. C. Mangan, lVI.D., Instructor of Inorganic Chemistry, etc. A. E. Marsland, Ph.G., Instructor in Pharmaceutics. Page I5 -E ii?